The presentation discusses the current practices in the online gaming industry, including traffic trends, characteristics, and quality of experience (QoE) requirements. It highlights the growth of online multiplayer games, the shift towards mobile and digital distribution, and various business models including free-to-play and subscription-based models. Additionally, it addresses network-related issues, the evolution of game architecture, and the impact of different gaming genres on bandwidth usage.

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Online Games:
Traffic Characterization and
Network Support
Jose Saldana
Mirko Suznjevic
University of Zaragoza, Spain
University of Zagreb, Croatia
GTC
Communication
Technologies Group
University of Zagreb
CCNC, Las Vegas, January 10th, 2014
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Goals of this presentation
• Information about current practices in online
games industry
• Traffic of online games – trends and
characteristics
• Current network related issues and Quality of
Experience (QoE) requirements
• Live QoE testing
• perfect excuse to play for a while…
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Goals of this presentation
• Information about current practices in online
games industry
• Traffic of online games – trends and
characteristics
• Current network related issues and Quality of
Experience (QoE) requirements
• Live QoE testing - a perfect excuse to play for a
while…
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Gamer population
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Size of the gaming industry
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Shift towards online
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Multiplayer games
Social games
Mobile games
Content distribution
DRM
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Shift towards online
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Multiplayer games
Social games
Mobile games
Content XboX one is supported by 300 000
distribution
servers, compared to 30 000 of XboX
DRM live
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Types of multiplayer
• Earliest ways – hot seat and split screen
• Playing over local networks
• Playing through Internet (online)
• The most popular online multiplayer
games:
– MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online
RPG)
– FPS (First Person Shooter)
– RTS (Real Time Strategy)
– MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena) –
combination RTS and RPG genres
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Social games
• Facebook by far the biggest platform, but its
overall market share is decreasing
• Casual games
• Gambling games
Source: SuperData resaerch
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Mobile games - The next big thing?
• Estimated to double by 2016 and reach $23.9BN
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Content distribution
• Digital distribution taking over
• Steam reached over 65 million active monthly users
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Who are the consumers?
Source: Entertainment Software Association (ESA) http://www.theesa.com/facts/gameplayer.asp
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Are video games only for kids?
Source: Entertainment Software
Association (ESA)
http://www.theesa.com/facts/gamepl
ayer.asp
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Device types
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Estimated growth
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Personal Computer (PC)
• Multi purpose device – not dedicated purely
for purpose of playing games
• “Natural” place for networked games
• Almost all PCs equipped with a network
interface
• “Core players” – perceived as a device for core
gaming audience
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Consoles
• Consoles of the newest generation are
equipped with network interfaces
• Supported by cloud server infrastructure
• XboX One supported by 300 000 servers
• Additional payment for multiplayer
– PlayStation Plus account
– Microsoft Xbox Live account
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Mobile
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Mobile phones, tablets, handheld consoles
Relatively new but very large market
Clash of Clans – 1 million dollars a day
Time spent in games can be larger then even time
spent in social networks (some of the games
work offline and do not generate network traffic)
• Biggest problems for Quality of Experience of
online games – variability of network parameters
(latency, latency variation, and packet loss)
Source: Ericsson Mobility Report http://www.ericsson.com/res/docs/2013/ericsson-mobilityreport-june-2013.pdf
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Business models
• Pay to play
– Game client/account
– Subscription
– Additions to existing games
• Free to play (F2P)
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Micro transactions
Additional content
Premium accounts
Cosmetic/usability improvements
• Combinations
• F2P demands full server control!!!
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F2P and scalability
• F2P enables much easier entry point for players – much
larger player numbers
• Example - battle for the Defense of the Ancients (DOTA) “heir”
– Dota is a highly popular custom map for Blizzard
Entertainment’s Warcraft 3 (millions of players)
– Enough for development of stand alone games
– Released: HoN May, 2010 and LoL October 2009
– Similar scores on metacritic: LoL – 78%, HoN – 76%
– LoL – F2P, HoN – P2P
– Today: LoL – 30 million unique players, HoN around
2million
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Subscription based model in decline
(MMORPGs)
A player in the USA:
$15 a month
12 months
$180 a year
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Peak concurrent users (MMORPGs)
Source: mmodata.org
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Game network traffic - global trends
• Global game traffic
– Very small share of the global volume
– 22% CAGR (Compounded Annual Growth Rate)
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Bandwidth [PB per month]
250
Game network traffic growth
estimation
200
150
Fixed
100
Mobile
50
0
2010
2011
2012
2013
Time [years]
2014
2015
Source: Cisco Visual Networking Index: Forecast and Methodology, 2010–2015 Global
Consumer Internet Gaming Traffic Growth
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Architecture
• Increasing dominance of client – server (C-S)
– Cheating avoidance
– Easier synchronization
– Billing
• Peer to Peer (P2P)
– Very few true Peer to Peer games (e.g., Demigod)
– Great scalability for large scale virtual worlds
– A lot of research activity (e.g., scalability for
Minecraft projects – Manycraft, Koekepan,
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Bottlenecks
• Three potential bottlenecks:
- uplink: gamers send their actions
- server: calculation of the next state
- downlink: send the state to players
Server processing
capacity limit
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Server organization in C-S model
• Server included in the game and one client acts
as the server (e.g., Warcraft 3)
• Dedicated server application released and players
create their own servers (e.g., Call of Duty)
• Server fully controlled by the
developer/publisher (e.g., World of Warcraft)
• Multiplayer match organization may be
orchestrated by the game provider, third parties,
or by players themselves
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Client versions
• Specific application per game
– Full clients (all the information stored in the client on
player’s device – single player games)
– Hybrid clients (need to communicate with the server)
• Clients encompassing multiple games
– Browser based games
– Cloud based games (thin clients)
• Client version is dependant of where game logic
and rendering is executed which heavily affects
traffic characteristics
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Game logic and rendering
• Stored fully on the client side (no information exchange
with the server)
• Game rendering on the client, game logic on the server
– Most games
– Virtual world updates from the server side
– Commands from client side
• Game rendering and logic on the server (cloud games)
– Video transferred from server to client
– Very sensitive to delay
• Game logic on the server and most of the rendering on the
server
– Only visual indicators of input on client (e.g., a flashing of a
button when the command is issued)
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Information transferred
• What information does the traffic comprise?
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Player commands/inputs
Virtual world state refreshes
Chat
Audio flows for player communication
• Some games have in-built VoIP systems
• Many players use stand alone applications (Teamspeak,
Ventrilo, Skype…)
– 3D data describing virtual world (Second Life)
– Video
• Send by cloud based games
• Streaming of gaming sessions
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Traffic characterization
• Game flows:
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Long lived
High packet rate
Small payload sizes
Low bandwidth usage
Using both UDP and TCP
Dependant on the game genre
• Identified issues:
– Delay sensitivity
– Low but very inefficient bandwidth usage
– Variable delivery requirements
• Thin client games are an exception
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Why so small?
• Market penetration!
• World of Warcraft was released in 2004 – in
order to reach as much users as possible it
needed to work on 33,6k modem
• Unreal Tournament on 14,4k 
• High broadband penetration –will games use
more and more bandwidth?
– No (and yes)
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Game traffic evolution? – Not really
1-5kbps
(2-8 players)
2-3 kbps
(independent of
number of players)
M. Claypool, D. LaPoint, and J. Winslow, “Network Analysis of Counter-strike and Starcraft,” in Proceedings of the
22nd IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference (IPCCC), USA, April 2003.
C-S. Lee, “The Revolution of StarCraft Network Traffic” in Proceedings of the 11th Annual Workshop on Network and
Systems Support for Games NetGames 2012
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34. Game traffic revolution? Yes*
• Cloud gaming traffic
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Very high bandwidth usage
High quality video
Very delay sensitive (no client side optimization)
* no high market penetration
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35. OnLive downstream traffic
M. Claypool, D. Finkel, A. Grant, and M. Solano: “Thin to win? Network performance analysis of the OnLive thin client
game system”. 11th Annual Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games (NetGames), 2012 (pp. 1-6). IEEE.
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Game genres
• Game categorization:
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Action (e.g., Grand Theft Auto)
Adventure (e.g., Broken Sword)
Arcade (e.g., Pinball)
Children’s Entertainment (e.g., Bob the Builder)
Family Entertainment (e.g., Mahjongg)
Fighting (e.g., Mortal Combat)
Flight (e.g., Wing Commander)
Racing (e.g., Need For Speed)
Role Playing (e.g., World of Warcraft)
Shooter (e.g., Quake)
Strategy (e.g., Starcraft)
Other Games
NPD Group Inc., NDP Software Category Definitions, 2008,
https://www5.npd.com/tech/pdf/swcategories.pdf.
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Bandwidth usage across genres
10000
Bandwidth [kbit/s]
1000
100
10
1
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Warcraft III
(RTS)
World of Madden NFL
Unreal
Second Life
Warcraft
(Sports)
Tournament
(CVE)
(MMORPG)
(FPS)
Crazy Taxi
(Cloud)
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First Person Shooters (FPS)
• Gameplay characteristics:
– Very fast paced
– Very delay sensitive (in fact delay is usually shown as main information
on the server listings)
– Several tens of players in one virtual world
• Traffic characteristics
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Use UDP
Loss tolerant (dependant on particular game)
Latency very important (usually displayed on server lists, or score lists)
Very high packet rate
Fairly regular packet sizes
Fairly regular packet inter-arrival times
In general most demanding game genre bandwidth wise (usually less
then 300kbps)
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QoE for FPS
• For unimpaired < 80 ms of one way delay (160 ms
RTT)
• Loss tolerance dependant on the game (from 1%
to 30%)
• Methods to combat delay
– Cause inconsistencies, but increase QoE
– Client side prediction
– Server side delay compensation (merging virtual
realities which are out of sync due to network delay)
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Shooting around the corner problem
(virtual world inconsistency)
Jack
Wang
Wang
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Shooting around the corner problem
(virtual world inconsistency)
Wang: Dead
Jack
Wang
Wang
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Shooting around the corner problem
(virtual world inconsistency)
Wang: Dead
Jack
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¡¡¡ #%$& !!!
Wang
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Shooting around the corner problem
(virtual world inconsistency)
Jack
Game server
Wang
Position 1
Position 2
time
Shot
Wang DEAD
Network delay scheme
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Server organization
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Small virtual worlds
Usually less then 100 players per map
Servers hosted by players (lower complexity)
Very densely geographically distributed (to maximally reduce
network delay)
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CDF’s of different FPS games
X. Che and B. Ip, “Review: Packet-level traffic analysis of online games from the genre
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characteristics perspective”, Journal of Network Computing Appl. 35, 240–252 (2012)
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World of Tanks
• Effect of player’s death on downlink
Server-to-client bandwidth
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30
Bandwidth [kbps]
25
20
15
10
Bandwidth
5
Tank destroyed
0
0
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200
300
400
game time [s]
500
600
700
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World of Tanks
• No effect of death on uplink
Client-to-server bandwidth
25
Bandwidth [kbps]
20
15
10
5
Bandwidth
Tank destroyed
0
0
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200
300
400
game time [s]
500
600
700
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QoE testing
• Counter Strike Source 1.4
• Two players
– Small map
– Death match
• 3 scenarios
– No network degradation
– Inserted delay
– Inserted packet loss
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Massively Multiplayer Role-Playing
Games (MMORPGs)
• Gameplay characteristics
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Wide range of possible activities
Very large virtual worlds
Virtual economies
Large number of players in same virtual world (up to tens of
thousands)
• Traffic characteristics
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Much more variable traffic characteristics
Less fault tolerance
TCP and UDP
Looser latency constraints
Lower packet rate
Lower bandwidth usage
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MMORPG - examples
RuneScape
EverQuest
EVE Online
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MMORPGs and media
• MMORPGs are not only for hardcore gamers
• Defiance: The First Video-Game Television
Show
• WoW inspired:
– Southpark
– WoW Movie (2015)
– Countless machinima
(i.e., movies made in game engine)
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MMORPG architecture: challenges
• Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games
– A large number of players which share one virtual world
– WoW – 12 million players (at the peak of popularity)
• Main issues:
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Calculation of the virtual world state
Consistency
Cheating avoidance
Scalability (all servers need to be under control of the provider)
• Two solutions:
– Single space worlds (using huge server farms e.g., EvE Online)
– “Sharding” of virtual word into multiple replicas of the virtual world
across which the players are distributed
• In recent years overlay systems are created over shards (e.g., World of
Warcraft)
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Single shard worlds
• All players inside one virtual world (EvE online, World of Tanks)
• Great server farms
• What if a lot of users decides to fight at one solar system??
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The Asakai incident
Youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iQw3YcLoQU
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Višemedijske komunikacije

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Integration of multiple games into one
virtual world (Dust 514 and EvE Online)
Youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS4rAYrRHWc
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Shards
• Each shard holds a copy of the whole virtual world
• Players are divided on shards and can not interact or
communicate (although this is changing)
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57. War without the warchief
Youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzsIiSTnQfI
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Example of MMORPG architecture
with multiple servers
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Transport protocols
• Which protocol TCP or UDP?
– Depending on the game genre and mechanic
Protocol
MMORPGs
TCP
World of Warcraft, Lineage I/II, Guild Wars,
Ragnarok Online, Anarchy Online, Mabinogi
UDP
EverQuest, City of Heroes, Star Wars Galaxies,
Ultima Online, Asherons Call, Final Fantasy XI
TCP/
UDP
Dark Age of Camelot
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Višemedijske komunikacije

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MMORPGs and TCP
• TCP not designed for a real time interactive
application!!! (yet it works)
• Application limited not network limited flows
• Multiple thin TCP flows behave unlike one fat TCP flow
• Mechanisms in TCP directly deteriorate the experience
of the players (delayed ACK, Nagle algorithm)
• Mechanisms of TCP do not work efficiently for
MMORPG (cwnd reduced due to application not
having something to send)
• High signaling overhead due to small packets
• High number of “pure” ACKS
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Specific game transport protocol?
• Game transport protocol
– Suggested in 2002 for MMORPGs
– Not really accepted
• Prerequisites of MMORPG Transport Protocol
– Must be transmitted in order and reliably (chat)
– Reliable but not in order (attack)
– Not reliable or in order (move)
• Transport options
– Multi-streaming
– Optional ordering
– Optional reliability
S. Pack, E.Hong, Y. Choi, I.Park, J-S. Kim, and D. Ko, “Game Transport Protocol: A Reliable Lightweight Transport Protocol for
Massively Multiplayer On-line Games (MMPOGs)”, Multimedia Systems and Applications, Vol. 486 pp. 83-94, Oct, 2002)
C-C. Wu, K-T. Chen, C-M. Chen, P.Huang, and C-L. Lei , “On the Challenge and Design of Transport Protocols for MMORPGs
”, Multimedia Tools and Applications Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 7--32, Oct, 2009.
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CDF’s of different MMORPGs
X. Che and B. Ip, “Review: Packet-level traffic analysis of online games from the genre
characteristics perspective”, Journal of Network Computing Appl. 35, 240–252 (2012)
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MMORPG action diversity
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Impact of MMORPG actions on
network traffic
• Use case World of Warcraft
• Bandwidth difference – up to 5 times
M. Suznjevic, O. Dobrijevic, and M. Matijasevic, "MMORPG Player Actions: Network Performance, Session Patterns and Latency
Requirements Analysis," Multimedia Tools and Applications, vol. 45 no. 1-3, pp. 191-214, 2009.
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Impact of MMORPG actions on QoE
M. Suznjevic, L. Skorin-Kapov, M. Matijasevic. "The Impact of User, System, and Context factors on Gaming QoE: a Case Study
Involving MMORPGs", Proc. of NetGames 2013, Denver, USA, Dec. 9-10, 2013.
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QoE testing
• World of Warcraft
• Duels!
– Hunter vs. Warrior
– Warrior overpowered at lower levels ;)
• 3 scenarios
– No network degradation
– Inserted delay
– Inserted packet loss
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Real Time Strategies (RTS)
• Usually omnipresent perspective
• Two major components
– Development
– Fighting
• Smaller scale in multiplayer commonly < 10
players in a match
• Recently a sub-genre of RTS games has
increased in popularity – Action RTS (or
Multiplayer Online Battle Arena – MOBA)
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Game network engines
• Synchronization of the game state between participating
players
• Starcraft 2 uses the “simulation model”
– P2P in a client server model!
– No central authority (server does NOT hold the game state)
– Game completely deterministic – same inputs should yield the
same results
– Every player’s command is queued up to be done at some point
in the future (typically, around 12 frames i. e. 200ms).
– Every player sends the inputs to other players (through the
server)
– Once all inputs are received game tick is calculated on client side
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Pros and cons
• Pros:
– Synchronization of only a few commands
instead of positions of thousands of units
– Very low bandwidth usage
• Cons
– Observable input delay (i.e., “lag”) – units do not
respond immediately
– Slowest player slowing down the game for all
– Possible desynchronization – end of a match
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Why is there a server in SC2?
• Traffic scaling - all players send their
commands to the server which distributes
them to others (no need for each player to
send its data to all other players)
• Storing player’s data
• Matchmaking (i.e., matching players with
similar skill levels)
• Anti-cheating mechanisms
• Anti-piracy
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ARTS (MOBA)
• Started as a community created map for RTS Warcraft 3 (Defense of the
Ancients – DOTA)
• DOTA suppressed the popularity of Warcraft 3
• Industry got interested in the “player created genre” dozens of games
• Comparison of 3 different games League of Legends, Heroes of Newerth
and DOTA 2
• League of Legends got very popular in a very short while – how to scale
such a game?
Date
Registere Monthly
d players players
Jul. 11
15 million 4 million
Nov. 2011 32.5
million
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11.5
million
Daily
players
Peak
concurrent
players
1.4 million 0.5 million
Daily hours
of play
4.2 million 1.3 million
10.5
million
3.7 million
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Networking model of the source
engine (DOTA 2)
• Packet regularity
• Noticeable input delay in comparison with HoN which
does client side state calculation
Source: Valve Developer Community
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Traffic characteristics comparison
300
200
100
20000
HoN
LoL
Dota2
0
Bandwidth usage
[bps]
Packet size [b]
400
15000
10000
5000
HoN
LoL
Dota2
0
Packet rate [pps]
80
60
40
20
HoN
LoL
Dota2
0
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QoE testing
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•
•
•
•
More robust to network impairments
Testing one game 2 actions
Warcraft III
Building the base – delay not an issue
Fighting – delay more noticable
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Let us play that online race!
• The web page starts the game application
• One of the players acts as the server
– It is not the one who creates the race
– Perhaps the one with the best connection
• Scalability advantage
– The game company does not have to set up a high
number of servers
– They only orchestrate the players

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Let us play that online race!
• Problems:
– You have to deal with NAT, since a computer has
to be the server
– You have to download the characteristics of the
other cars, since they are improved and painted
• Extra delay does not affect, since interaction
between cars is not very significant (only at
the beginning)

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Traces with 8 players (myself+7)
Packet size uplink (bytes)
Packet size downlink (bytes)
100%
100%
90%
90%
80%
80%
70%
70%
60%
60%
50%
50%
40%
40%
30%
30%
20%
20%
10%
10%
0%
0%
10
30
50
70
90
110
bytes
130
150
170
190
10
Inter-packet time uplink (ms)
30
50
70
90
110
bytes
130
150
170
190
Inter-packet time downlink (ms)
100%
100%
90%
90%
80%
80%
70%
70%
60%
60%
I am the server. I have
to send a burst of 7
packets every 10 ms
50%
40%
30%
20%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
10%
0%
0%
0
20
40
60
ms
80
100
0
20
40
60
ms
80
100

78. Genre differences in cloud games
• Differences due to game dynamics – different
video characteristics
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79. GamingAnywhere - Open Source cloud
gaming testbed
• Testing different genres and created network traffic
• “Snapping” desktop image at 40FPS
• Traffic properties dependant of the game dynamics
(rate of the change of the video stream)
Battlefield 3 (FPS)
Civilization 5 (TBS)
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80. Summary of problems
• Delay sensitivity
• Sensitive to varying network conditions (mobile networks)
• Very low (and inefficient) bandwidth usage of “regular”
games
• Very high bandwidth requirements of cloud based games
• Issues regarding consistency of the distributed virtual world
state (network engines)
• Fairness
• Scalability problems
• Adapting to player behavior
• Protocol related issues
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TCM-TF advertisement
• In need of some flexibility (game release, rush
hour, certain places):
– What if we can multiplex traffic flows when required?
– What if we save bandwidth in bottlenecks?
ISP
aggregation
network
xDSL router
DSLAM
xDSL router
Network of
the service
provider
TCMTF
TCMTF ISP network
DSLAM 2
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Application
server
BRAS
GGSN TCMTF
Node B
Internet
ISP
aggregation
network
Internet Router
(ISP)
Internet Router
(Service provider)
TCMTF
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TCM-TF advertisement
First Person Shooter game:
Four IPv4/UDP client-to-server packets of Counter Strike
η=61/89=68%
One IPv4/TCM packet multiplexing four client-to-server Counter Strike packets
saving
η=244/293=83%
MMORPG:
TCP ACKs without payload
Seven IPv4/TCP client-to-server packets of World of Warcraft. E[P]=20bytes
η=20/60=33%
One IPv4/TCM packet multiplexing seven client-to-server W. of Warcraft packets
saving
η=120/187=64%
VoIP
VoIP (exactly like RFC4170):
One IPv4/UDP/RTP VoIP packet with two samples of 10 bytes
η=20/60=33%
40 to 6-8 bytes compression
Five IPv4/UDP/RTP VoIP packets with two samples of 10 bytes
η=20/60=33%
One IPv4 TCMTF Packet multiplexing five two sample packets
η=100/161=62%
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83. Acknowledgments
• Projects that supported this work:
– Content Delivery and Mobility of Users and Services in
New Generation Networks,” by the Ministry of Science,
Education, and Sports of the Republic of Croatia;
– The European Community Seventh Framework Programme
under Grant Agreement no. 285939 (ACROSS);
– CPUFLIPI Project (MICINN TIN2010-17298);
– Project TAMA, Government of Aragon;
– Project Catedra Telefonica, University Zaragoza;
– European Social Fund in collaboration with the
Government of Aragon.
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Thank you!
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